But now, nearly nine years later, city residents find themselves at odds with Obama over the plans for his presidential library. In its initial bid for the right to host the library, put forth on ...

but Barack and Michelle Obama are back—and they're getting down to business. The couple is scheduled to reveal plans for the presidential library and museum Wednesday in Chicago, according to ...

After twelve months, 56 community meetings, and several design tweaks, the Obama Presidential Center went before the Chicago Plan Commission ... The second floor of City Hall reverberated with ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The head of the Group "Friends of the Parks" is complaining that plans for the Obama Presidential Library and Museum in Jackson Park seem to be moving too quickly for true ...

CHICAGO — Former president Barack Obama ... plan calls for the museum to anchor the northern end of the plaza on the sprawling campus of the presidential center, while the roofs of the library ...

Mr. Lipson is one of more than 100 faculty at the University of Chicago who signed a public letter asking Mr. Obama to move his library ... the Obama Center if the plan genuinely promoted economic ...

Barack Obama has more than 500 days ... dishy look at the hush-hush plan: The $1 billion — double what George W. Bush raised for his library and its various programs — would be used for ...

Construction of former President Barack Obama's long-awaited library and museum in Chicago began with ambitious plans for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) but is now plagued by huge cost ...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel offered another spirited defense Wednesday of his push to use public park land for a proposed Barack Obama presidential library near ... was asked why his plan calls only ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Residents near Barack Obama's Presidential Library received Wednesday an update on more changes to their neighborhood's landscape. Now CBS 2 is hearing more about plans for a new ...